Do the unit still miss a turn after crushing blow use? Can't remember at the moment. That's at least a penalty.

yes, looks like it's cause of armor mechanic

i think armor works like float number, not percent value

and (for example) without CB damage is 30dmg - 20armor resist =10dmg

and with crushing blow it's like 60dmg-20armor = 40dmg - four times more.

Its not truly a static number but your theme is correct. 1 single high attack is better against armor than multiple weaker attacks, so ultimately crushing blow both so more damage AND negates some armor.

Or even better idea is multiple by 2 TOTAL damage inflicted, not initial.

I mean you should use standart attack number, reduce it by enemy's armor and only after it multiply damage by 2.

Maybe it'll be better to add only 50% of damage BUT this attack will have 100% chance of knocking enemy.

Playing with Crushing Blow reduced to 50% extra damage has made a world of difference. No longer am I just building militia (or skeletons with the Nerco mod) and just running in and swinging. Now I wait and do normal attacks with my hammer dudes....waiting for the right moment before trying to get the edge on my opponents so that lost turn doesn't give the enemy an advantage. I'm also not building only hammer dudes anymore either. I'm finding spears to be very useful for reaching where I normally can't reach. Swords generally go to my defender type units and axes generally go to my initiative type units. I really am using a full spread now.....mostly because there is no blindingly obvious choice anymore.

I got it again in 1.2. I had a quest up, and reloaded a combat I think, while the unit was 1 turn away from completion. After reload it started on new unit, and the "old" unit wasn't produced. 1 turn autosaves as setting. 

Maybe I multitask too much.. (well some punishment for reloading is okay now and then ^^ ) Not that common for me anymore so maybe you fixed something inadvertently making it harder to reproduce  

My most recent game had the old problem with the Imperium being unable to be completed due to an AI city being built too close to the walls.

Edit:  Also seeing Ogres using Crushing Blow at range.  Ouch

Some more bugs:

-The AI gets the level 7 quest hero Araine near the start of the game very easily.

-Yithril AI builds lots of Brutes even though they totally suck and have no armor.

-Ironeer archers use guarded strike. Questionable.

-Suddenly Darkling modetypes can equip Kiteshields and some leather and chain armor pieces.

Why does an Iron Golem cost 41 metal ? seems a little odd that it's not just 40 metal...

Max Damage = Att * (Att/(Att + Def))  So you're not quite right, but under certain circumstances your conclusion could appear to be correct.

Doing some calculus on the matter you will find that as def goes to infinity keeping attack the same, you will yield a times 4 damage of an attack that is basically 0.

But if you keep the attack always more than the defense, as attack goes to infinite the closer the damage gets to 2, but as attack goes to be equal to defense the attack turns out to be more like 2.6 times more or more precisely the fraction of (8/3)

If this is the function that computes the damage...

At a 75% bonus as was suggested when attack and defense are equal then the damage is about 2.2 times more or more precisely the fraction of (49 / 22)

Can this be related to this specific battle? Quest monsters are often still version 0.xx

Every time I own or fight a dragon, Fear is working very well. So well, in fact, that owning a dragon more or less ensures victory.

I agree something strange is going on with Fear. I fought a battle last night against a dragon, and my units failed their resistance check in the first round, and the dragon got two or three actions in a row. So far so good. However all my units were then able to act normally, despite being officially under the effect of Fear. This was pretty obvious because I moved them, they had their attack, and then a big "-Fear" text would appear above them. Presumably if they had still been under the effect of Fear they should have missed their turn?

The text of the spell says that it should last for three actions. Is this actions of the unit who cast the spell or actions or the unit affected by the spell? If it's the latter, then it's not working correctly. If it's the former, then it may be working correctly, however the way the effect is being removed seems wrong and is confusing.

If it's supposed to last for three actions of the unit which is afraid, that seems a pretty massive increase in effect to how it works now, bearing in mind how high initiative dragons are already. One dragon could get six actions before a single normal initiative unit had moved.

My tests when modding all point to this modifier

       <GameModifier>
            <ModType>TacticalUnit</ModType>
            <Attribute>ChanceToLoseNextTurn</Attribute>
            <DisplayName>Afraid</DisplayName>
            <Duration>3</Duration>
            <Effect>E_Afraid_Particle</Effect>
            <Value>100</Value>
        </GameModifier>

not working more than one turn ever. Perhaps it needs a <PerTurn>?

I've found very similar situations to all the above points.  While the spell has very grandiose over-the-top spell effects when cast, and sounds like it's supposed to be quite crippling, castling fear is in fact fairly harmless in my experience.

At this point, I consider the spell Fear to be little more than a pretty purple light show the enemy was kind enough to perform for us.